Temporal relations of free indirect discourse events
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Jakob Egetenmeyer
Abstract
In this article, we investigate the role free indirect discourse (FID) plays in temporal discourse structure. In contrast to the most widely accepted account of FID, which compares the content of FID to the surrounding content (two voices or two contexts), we take FID as a discourse entity and, thus, focus on the FID event. We follow a prominence-based approach to temporal discourse structure, through which we are able to describe the temporal relations the FID event maintains to the preceding and the following discourse in a precise manner. We can also account for the temporal developments that may be brought about by FID events. This becomes especially interesting in longer passages where FID events alternate with non-FID parts of discourse. The interaction involves the three levels which together make up our account of temporal discourse structure.
Funding source: DFG SFB 1252 Prominence in Language
Award Identifier / Grant number: Project ID 281511265
Funding source: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Acknowledgments
This article is a further development of two talks given in Groningen (Egetenmeyer 2018) and Cologne (Becker and Egetenmeyer 2018b). The research was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) as part of the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1252 Prominence in Language, Project ID 281511265, which is gratefully acknowledged. We thank Robert Tegethoff for proofreading an earlier draft, Mary Chambers for proofreading the final draft, and Barbara Zeyer and David Wick for practical assistance. Furthermore, we thank Daniel Altshuler, Hans Kamp, Antje Rossdeutscher and Emar Maier for feedback on the paper presented in Groningen. Finally, we thank Ann Kelly for her constructive and always friendly support in preparing the paper for publication.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- What participles are a mixture of
- Typology of partitives
- Rapid radiation of the inner Indo-European languages: an advanced approach to Indo-European lexicostatistics
- The Bantu relative agreement cycle
- On the role of creativity in the formation of new complex words
- Temporal relations of free indirect discourse events
- Suǒyǐ ‘so’, they are different: an integrated subjectivity account of Mandarin RESULT connectives in conversation, microblog and newspaper discourse
- The sound of gender – correlations of name phonology and gender across languages
